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The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis feat. Jon Batiste - The Music of John Lewis (2017)

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The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis feat. Jon Batiste - The Music of John Lewis (2017)

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Artist: The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis feat. Jon Batiste
Album: The Music of John Lewis
Genre: Modern Big Band, Orchestral Jazz
Label: Blue Engine Records
Released: 2017
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
  1. 2 Degrees East, 3 Degrees West (07:09)
  2. Animal Dance (03:55)
  3. Django (04:52)
  4. Jon Batiste Introduces the Band (01:03)
  5. Delaunay's Dilemma (05:23)
  6. La Cantatrice (05:08)
  7. Piazza Navona (06:35)
  8. Pulcinella (04:08)
  9. Spanish Steps (04:49)
  10. Wynton Marsalis Discusses John Lewis (01:40)
  11. Two Bass Hit (06:45)

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The crisp precision of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra honors one of the jazz giants, composer-pianist and noted leader of the innovative Modern Jazz Quartet, John Lewis (1920-2001). His approach with the MJQ, a Third Stream understanding, was chamber jazz, a unified quartet of double bass, piano, drums, and vibraphone swinging and meshing jazz with the interplay of a classical piano quartet. Indeed, classical formats as fugues and rondos appeared in concerts, but his ear extended also to Django's pulsing beats and hot melodies, bebop, and traditional New Orleans blues. Wynton Marsalis, with his own Ellingtonesque experiments into classical suites, ballets, quartets, symphonies, and masses, coupled with the Orchestra's studied technique provide a sympathetic homage. Whether full orchestra, solo, or small ensemble pieces, these live concert sessions are deeply satisfying.

Clarinet [Victor Goines], guitar [Doug Wamble, guest], and piano [Jon Batiste, guest] are soloists in the opening track, 2 Degrees East, 3 Degrees West, a soulful 12-bar blues. The full orchestra is next in Animal Dance, with appropriate dissonant braying and roaring. The famous Lewis composition, Django, has Batiste alone at his piano in a grand but also witty interpretation, meshing a 19th century classical European salon with a Southern delta saloon. Marsalis and his trumpet joins Ted Nash, alto saxophone, and Chris Crenshaw on trombone in Delaunay's Dilemma, this particular Delaunay being Charles, co-leader of the Hot Club de France. The bebop track bounces along cheerfully. The next four pieces are taken from the MJQ album The Comedy, a suite of seven, very classical influenced compositions, and features Batiste: La Cantatrice; Piazza Navona (with Marsalis); Pulcinella; and Spanish Steps. Marsalis briefly discusses the work of John Lewis, and the album concludes with Two Bass Hit, with Dizzy Gillespie and Gil Fuller's arrangement and Carlos Henriquez, bass, Marsalis, and Batiste, soloists. The album is a very fast 51 minutes.
By Dr. Debra Jan Bibel

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